Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig meltwaterpress.com. NS
Answer
meltwaterpress.com. 5 NS ns-311.awsdns-38.com.
meltwaterpress.com. 5 NS ns-1359.awsdns-41.org.
meltwaterpress.com. 5 NS ns-904.awsdns-49.net.
meltwaterpress.com. 5 NS ns-2021.awsdns-60.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0